"Kai Großjohann" wrote in message news:8465n1983n.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de... > "Paul Edwards" writes: > > > Ok, it is the key I am pressing then (near ). > > But when Emacs is reporting DEL, it doesn't mean it just > > saw ascii 127, it means it saw a backspace (C-h). > > Huh? What does C-h l say after you hit whatever key it is that Emacs > reports as DEL? DEL ESC x h e l p RET l Note that the first key I hit was the (next to ). > (Is Emacs reporting DEL when you hit ?) Yep! > It is possible that normal-erase-is-backspace has an influence, here, I'm on emacs 20.7.1 which doesn't have that. > and that it is set to the wrong value in your Emacs. (The variable > normal-erase-is-backspace should not be set via setq, if you want to > use Lisp, use the function normal-erase-is-backspace-mode.) > > > Incidentally, people are always referring to "press C-h then xxx", > > but of course I have remapped C-h to be backspace, I mean, C-h is > > backspace, and we all know what backspace does. So I duly replace > > C-h with Esc x help. It seems a very surprising key binding to me. > > Whee. Does work as a help key? Yes, it does! Although seems a bit different from M-x help, the latter comes up with the menu straight away, the former suggests I press "?" to get it. > Maybe it's the normal-erase-is-backspace thing. If not, then I'm > flabbergasted. Everything to do with backspace/delete is fine, just that help I have to (now) use F1 instead of C-h. This is not a problem at all. BFN. Paul.